Quibble and Bits

This has nothing to do with anything, just the ranting of a nobody in this large pool of a nation of self appropriated greatness. I call this the Great Drowning Pool or as the saying goes it could be called the Sink or Swim Pool.

The problem is that it seems more people are sinking than swimming. Where are the life guards? Who are the life guards? I look around and everybody is helping to drag down the person next to them in an effort of self survival.

What am I talking about you ask? This Damn economy (not just the present economy but the whole way we do business)! Here we are built on the shady foundation of Capitalism and we act surprised that our consumer driven economy is collapsing because all of the greed and money madness is turning upside down on itself. When the main pursuit in life becomes the accumulation of wealth what remains is the option to rot. Theology aside, it must be a common understanding that the pursuit of money (filthy lucre) is empty in its self and cannot stand alone.

There must be a stronger foundation. There must be purpose behind profitability. If the sole purpose of survival is to do business for profit and just for profit regardless of the extrinsic consequences then where do we stand but in a pool of our own death. This is the sour underbelly of the platform upon which we stand; the platform of Capitalism. What started out as free trade has grown into the ugly monster of greed. No longer is the human element of prime interest, only the self, self gain, self indulgence, self promotion, and self satisfaction. These ideas have burrowed into the subconscious of our nation and they infest our institutions. We have become a self serving Empire of gluttons more concerned with the color of our cars and the cut of our pants than with anything substantial.

When our president bows in respect to a foreign leader and his adversaries attack his actions for their own political advantage I see nothing but signs of sickness in our nation. What happened to friendliness, kindness, and all human decency? Are we so concerned with the appearance of power and control that we forget to be human? It angers me that we call the real world a place that we must put on a different face in order to enter it and exercise leverage over our fellow man. All this competition to gain and maintain power has cost us the very thing we are fighting for, our freedom and human decency.